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The tyranny of opinion : honor in the construction of the Mexican public sphere / Pablo Piccato.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piccato, Pablo.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Honor--Political aspects--Mexico.
- Honor.
- Mexico--Politics and government--1861-1867.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--Politics and government--1867-1910.
- Mexico--Politics and government--1910-1946.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A historical account of concepts of honor in Mexico during the mid-to-late nineteenth century and the role of those concepts in the development of the public sphere.
- Contents:
- Introduction : honor and the public sphere in the Republican era
- Setting the rules of freedom : the trajectory of the press jury
- Representing public opinion : combat journalists and the business of honor
- "The word of my conscience" : eloquence and the foreign debt
- Breaking lamps and expanding the public sphere : students and populacho
- Against the deuda inglesa
- Honor and the state : reputation as a juridical good
- "A horrible web of insults" : the everyday defense of honor
- "One does not talk to the dead" : the Romero-Verastegui affair and the apogee of dueling in Mexico.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-369) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036285
- 9781283036283
- 1283036282
- 9780822391753
- 0822391759
- OCLC:
- 631245918
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